mastodon 4.5.18The tech account of @scott@carfree.city.
Programming stuff here, bikes/transit/local politics over there.
When I joined #mastodon, I just wanted an open-source #twitter clone.
I got more than that. Subtle design differences made for healthier conversations in ways I wasn't expecting.
Here's a blog post to try to capture those differences and why they matter. https://scott.mn/2022/10/29/twitter_features_mastodon_is_better_without/
I love Vim, but it's not challenging anymore. They should add a hard mode where if you press any of the arrow keys, it exits without saving. j/k and h/l only.
This is so typical. When I was an interviewer at a supposedly progressive/enlightened tech company, I would hear others on interview loops with me rationalize away mediocre white male candidates' signs of weak performance, when they would have been quick to ding a female or Black/Latine candidate for the same things.
Failing company announces it now has bridge to sell you, sending shares soaring
Niche complaint: why does the vorbiscomment tool not work with Ogg Opus files?! You went to all that trouble to separate the file format (Ogg) from the codec (Opus/Vorbis) and then coupled your metadata to a specific codec?
We recently moved BikeHopper (https://github.com/bikehopper) from Kubernetes with config in git, to Coolify. I was nervous about the click-ops nature of Coolify—lacking a history of changes and so forth—but it’s worked pretty well.